Who are identified as the recipients of Judges?

• A. The Self-Willed Christian Life
• B. The People of Israel
• C. The Judges themselves
• D. The Priests of Israel

Answer: (A)

Judges centers on a repeated pattern: Israel abandons God and does what seems right to themselves. That self-governing stance is the main issue the book tackles, showing how life goes downhill when people live under their own authority rather than under God’s. The message isn’t aimed at a particular office like priests or judges alone, nor is it only a historical account of Israel as a nation. It’s a spiritual diagnosis for anyone who tends to rule their life by self-will rather than by God. When self-will dominates, cycles of trouble follow, and only when people cry out to God is deliverance possible. In this sense, the recipients are those who live a self-willed Christian life, because the book’s purpose is to expose the consequences of autonomy from God and to call believers back to submission and reliance on him.